As a resident physician at Grand Strand Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Adlai Pappy II has been working on the frontlines against COVID-19 and has seen firsthand both the strengths and inadequacies of the U.S. healthcare system. But this…
The son of Haitian immigrants, Archel G. Desir was shaped largely by his parents’ emigration to the United states. “I grew up watching them re-establish themselves after they had basically been told that their academic and professional accomplishments didn’t count,”…
The importance of education to achieving success was something Al Dea learned at a young age. It was an idea cultivated in him by his parents around the dinner table, where he learned about their own journeys to success and…
Growing up in New Jersey, Brandon Smith’s childhood was shaped by a love of basketball. Under no illusion that he had what it takes to go pro — “I’m only 5-foot-9, so after high school, I stopped pursuing the basketball…
Dekonti “Dek” Sayeh is driven by a desire to shape a better future for employees and companies. As a consultant at Slalom Consulting, a fast-growing consulting firm focused on IT, data/analytics and tech enablement, Sayeh works to achieve this vision…